US Patent Issued to WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Tool for use with orthodontic brackets" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,717, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY Corp. (McMinnville, Ore.).

"Tool for use with orthodontic brackets" was invented by Alberto Ruiz-Vela (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) and Juergen Bathen (McMinnville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument for facilitating opening of a ligating member for an orthodontic bracket. The instrument includes one tip designed to engage an opening feature on a labial side of a ligating door of the orthodontic bracket, and another tip designed to sit underneath a tie wing formed on a body of the orthodontic bracket. When the instrument is in position against the orthodontic br...